Office Building & Commercial Tenant Access Cards

Who This Is For

This page is for facility managers, building operators and commercial tenants who need reliable, cost-effective access credentials compatible with their installed office access control system. It is equally relevant to access control integrators and managed-services providers who procure card stock on behalf of multi-tenant commercial portfolios.

If your building runs HID ProxCard, iCLASS SE, Corporate 1000, Lenel 42-bit, Software House CCOTZ 37-bit, Kastle Systems 32-bit or a comparable enterprise Wiegand or smart-card format, the compatible credentials supplied here will read on your installed hardware without panel or reader reconfiguration.

Tenants needing individual replacement badges, building operators managing a multi-floor credential rollout, and FM contractors handling end-of-lease re-carding will all find the format coverage and ordering process below directly relevant. Buyers procuring for residential access should see apartment and multifamily building access cards and fobs instead.

Enterprise Formats We Cover for Offices

The commercial office sector concentrates the largest share of proprietary enterprise formats — Corporate 1000, FlexSecur, CCOTZ and similar — precisely because large-site deployments historically locked end users into single-vendor card supply. These are exactly the formats where compatible sourcing is most scarce and most valuable. Our high-security and custom formats range addresses this directly.

For HID-based installations, we carry compatible cards across the standard 26-bit H10301, HID Corporate 1000 48-bit, HID H800002 46-bit and related facility-code formats. Software House C•CURE installations using Software House CCOTZ 37-bit credentials are covered, as are Lenel OnGuard sites using Lenel 42-bit compatible proximity cards. Indala-format sites — including Indala FlexSecur and Indala ASC 27-bit — are stocked for both corporate and multi-site FM accounts.

Gallagher installations present one of the higher-difficulty sourcing scenarios in the commercial sector: the Gallagher Cardax compatible proximity card format uses a site-specific bit structure that most generalist suppliers do not support. We stock compatible credentials for Gallagher readers and can match the facility code structure required for seamless read-through on installed Gallagher hardware. ADT-managed commercial sites using ADT 31-bit compatible proximity cards and Inner Range installations running Inner Range compatible proximity cards are also covered. The Corporate 1000, FlexSecur and custom facility code guide provides detailed technical background on these formats.

Spares for Staff, Bulk Supply for Tenants and FM

Office credential needs split cleanly into two purchasing patterns. Individual spares — a replacement badge for a staff member who lost their card, a duplicate for a visiting contractor — are ordered in small quantities against an existing facility code. Bulk orders, by contrast, cover new-tenant onboarding, floor-level re-carding at lease turnover, or standing stock for a facilities management contract covering multiple sites.

Both patterns are supported. For spares, we need your format, facility code and the card number range required. For bulk tenant supply, quantity pricing is applied per SKU with breaks at standard case levels; multi-format orders covering different reader generations across floors or buildings can be combined on a single purchase order. The bulk compatible card purchasing guide outlines documentation, format confirmation and first-order process in detail.

Substrate options for office credentials include plain white PVC (standard for staff ID re-use), pre-printed corporate badge artwork, dual-interface cards for sites that also use a proximity layer for vending or time-and-attendance, and cards with a magnetic stripe for secondary building systems. Print and substrate specifications are confirmed at quote stage. Browse the Wiegand bit-format cards category to review the standard SKU range before submitting a quote request.

Secured Smart Cards: Compatible Blanks Your System Enrols

Enterprise office systems that have migrated beyond basic 125 kHz proximity — to HID iCLASS SE/Elite, HID Seos, MIFARE DESFire AES or similar secured platforms — use an enrolment model where the access control system itself writes site-specific sector keys to each credential during provisioning. Compatible blanks for these formats ship without factory keys loaded; your system's enrolment workflow writes the keys during first use, exactly as it would with OEM-supplied stock.

This means compatible smart blanks drop into your enrolment process without any additional configuration or key-loading step on the procurement side. The credential your reader sees after enrolment is functionally identical to a credential issued by the platform vendor, because the keys your system wrote are the keys your readers validate. Cards built on genuine NXP DESFire EV3 silicon, for instance, present the same ISO 14443-4 responses to the reader regardless of which supplier produced the blank substrate.

For Kastle managed-access installations — a managed-cloud platform increasingly common in commercial office buildings — compatible cards must match the specific format Kastle readers are configured to accept. Kastle-compatible credentials are available as a separate line; format confirmation with Kastle's system administrator prior to ordering is recommended for first-time buyers. The managed and cloud access category covers Kastle and comparable managed-platform credentials.

Request a Quote

To receive an accurate quote, provide your access control platform (HID, Lenel OnGuard, Software House C•CURE, Gallagher, Kastle, Inner Range or other), the card format currently in use (format number or a legible photo of an existing credential), your facility code if known, required quantity and any substrate or print requirements. Contact our team with these details and we will return format confirmation, pricing and lead time within one business day.

If you are uncertain which format your system uses, our technical team can identify the credential specification from your panel model, reader part number or a sample card. For installers and FM contractors managing multiple sites with different reader generations, the Wiegand format guide is a useful pre-order reference for confirming bit-structure across mixed-brand portfolios. Browse the full product catalogue for available SKUs across all office-relevant formats.

Security ID Systems is an independent manufacturer and supplier of compatible access-control credentials and is not affiliated with, authorized by, or endorsed by HID Global, Lenel Systems International, Software House, Gallagher, Kastle Systems, Inner Range, Indala, or ADT.